DISCOURSE AT THE FUNERAL OF THE HON. TIMOTHY JENKINS, DELIVERED IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, ONEIDA CASTLE, DECEMBER 29, 1859, BY...OF SYRACUSE, N.Y. WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ONEIDA COUNTY BAR, AND OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Syracuse: Summers & Brother, 1860. 24pp, disbound [loosening], light wear. Good+.
May, the prominent anti-slavery reformer, eulogizes Jenkins and provides a biography of him. Prosecuting attorney, "Attorney to the Oneida Indians," Democratic Congressman, he was an early advocate of the Wilmot Proviso. He left the Democratic Party in 1855, "when he found that Party had allied itself to the Southern Oligarchy, which would ruthlessly trample upon all human rights, would set at nought all ordinances, compromises, or constitutional guarantees, that might obstruct the prosecution of their fell purposes."
FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin, Dumond, NUC. OCLC 24807109 [5]. Item #7962
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